The promised reward for Li Jinwen was Shandong silk, and Jiaozhou Town has recently made a lot of money.

The Tatar forbidden sea in the north was a managed forbidden sea, and merchants who obtained the approval of the imperial court could go to Korea and Japan to buy copper in the open.

Merchants who don't have this way smuggle.

Last year, Shandong seized a smuggling ship along the coast of northern and southern Shandong, Jiaozhou found a pure smuggling ship, and Dengzhou found a ship with the permission of the prefecture and county officials.

The latter was fine, and the former ship found a scarf (for binding hair), bows and arrows, and steel, which was the lightest in the south, and the main culprit was beheaded, and the family and accomplices were sent to the armoured people to be enslaved. In Shandong, this case is the confiscation of the cargo, the main culprit hit 100 boards, and the others are fine. As for the forbidden item such as a hair scarf, Shandong officials explained to Beijing that it was something for children to play with, and that the child had just fallen into the water and drowned, so they gently let the matter go.

What is the ban on the sea, as long as the border is not moved, it is not a good thing for Shandong officials and businessmen to collude and smuggle together.

Hai Shixing was too lazy to do business, and directly robbed Jiaozhou, the smuggling center of Lunan, which would be very rich.

Zhang Pengfei was inclined to agree.

It is a waste for the fleet to be on Haiyang Island, because Dongjiang Town does not have an ice-free haven on the mainland, and only Taiping Bay on the island can be anchored by the fleet.

Hai Shixing suddenly anyway, this situation is actually quite embarrassing. If he can guard Lingshan until the beginning of spring next year, there will be more choices at that time.

After discussing with Ding Yaokang, Gu Rong and Yangyi, Zhang Pengfei decided to send Gu Rong to lead 18 warships south to support Jiaozhou. Barnaby sent Scarface with 3 gunboats to participate in the operation.

The fleet headed south before the cold wave, passed by Chengshanwei, and fired a few empty cannons on the shore, which stirred up wolf smoke with no end in sight.

Sailing along the coastline of Shandong, the fleet arrived at Lingshan Bay.

Lingshan is the ancient battlefield of the decisive battle on the sea of Song and Jin, which was the strongest battle of the classical Chinese navy.

Li Bao, deputy director of the Mabu Army on Zhejiang West Road in the Southern Song Dynasty, and 3,000 volunteers of the Sailor Division took advantage of the north-south monsoon to expedition to Lingshan Bay.

At that time, the Jin army assembled a fleet and was preparing to go south, but was frightened stupid by the sudden appearance of the Song army, and the 70,000 Jin army sailors were completely wiped out in a battle. The Song army beheaded the deputy capital of the Jin army and finished Yan Zheng Jianu, and burned thousands of Jin army warships in four days and nights. This battle directly led to the bankruptcy of Wan Yanliang's plan to break through the Yangtze River with the navy from sea to land.

500 years later, Gu Rong led nearly 2,000 Zhoushan masters to the hometown of their predecessors who fought bloodily again.

The sea breeze was fierce, Gu Rong knelt on the bow of the boat, and toasted three bowls of wine to the sea.

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Lingshanwei is on the west side of Jiaozhou Bay, sandwiched between Lingshan Bay and a peninsula, and Lingshan Bay opens to the south, in which gunboats can shelter from the north wind.

There are more than 20 large and small ships in the port, all of which were robbed by Jiaozhou Town. This former green battalion field unit is a land division, and there is no sailor division under its jurisdiction, and the officers and men do not know how to operate boats, and they cannot run far with a large group of men and horses and boats.

Gu Rong raised the binoculars, Lingshanwei Castle is located between the mountains and the sea, and the road approaching from the land is very narrow.

Lingshan Bay Harbor is wide and deep, the seabed near the shore is sandy, and the beachhead is gentle and long, which is very suitable for anchoring.

The Tatar vanguard had arrived in the north of the city and camped between the mountains and the sea.

Li Jinwen warmly invited Dongjiang Town to camp in the city.

Gu Rong smiled and declined, "I'll go up the mountain first." ”

There is a hill with an elevation of more than 70 meters in the south of Lingshan City, Gu Rong climbed to the top of the mountain and raised the telescope.

In the north of Lingshan City, various Tatar military flags are displayed in the camp.

Dongjiang Town is in the north, Jiaozhou Town is in the south anyway, Yu Qi's rebel army is in the heart, fighting on three routes, and the Tatar forces in Shandong are immediately insufficient.

Shunzhi finally decided to dispatch the Eight Banners.

The Tatars blocked the south with Shen Guangkui, the governor of Caoyun, and mainly defended the Huai River and Miaowan.

The main force of the attack was the Zhili Green Battalion and the Eight Banners of the First Forbidden Brigade transferred by Ma Guanghui, the governor of Zhili, Henan, and Shandong provinces, and the commander was Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Ji Xiha, and the deputy commander was Zhenghuang Banner Meler Ezhen Husha.

In the early stage, it was a Kabush Xianchaoha forward battalion led by Hu Sha, a Texas garrison flag battalion, and a green battalion Changping and Miyun two towns.

Kabush Xianchaoha is also called Bayala outpost, Bayala in Bayala, more than ten years ago, the name can scare the Ming army to death, 100 forward battalions often chase thousands of Ming troops to cut.

Of course, the current forward battalion is still a strong army, but it no longer has the prestige that made the Ming army look down on the wind.

Gu Rong instructed his subordinates to camp at the port under the mountain, and took a few personal soldiers to follow Li Jinwen into the Lingshan Acropolis.

There are thousands of military and civilian households in the Lingshan Acropolis, the families of the officers and soldiers of the Haishi Xingbu and the strong women who are coerced in Jiaozhou, the number of which is nearly 20,000.

Near Jiaozhou Bay, only the three cities of Jiaozhou, Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei have space to accommodate so many people. Jiaozhou is inland, can not be guarded, Aoshanwei affiliated seaport conditions are slightly poor, so Haishixing chose Lingshanwei.

Lingshanwei is an important town in coastal defense in Shandong, the circumference of the city is five miles, the city is square, the building is neat, and it is larger than the capital city of Dengzhou.

Very orthodox Chinese city layout, the central cross street leads to the four gates, neat and square, shaped like a chessboard, the boundary river enters from the north water gate, exits from the south water gate, converges in the south of the city, and flows to the sea. In the city, there are health departments, school palaces, experience divisions, and warehouses, and many vacant buildings are occupied by soldiers at this time.

The Tatars transferred troops from Zhili to give Hai Shixing enough time, and Jiaozhou Town robbed all the gold, silver, silk, grain, and ordnance of Jiaozhou, Jimo, and Aoshanwei, retreated to Lingshanwei, and also robbed the merchant ships in Jiaozhou Bay.

The sea time is very good, but it is really impossible to hold it, and with these boats, you can at least take your family and soldiers to sea.

On the Tatar side, the uprising in Shandong, including Hai Shixing and Yu Qi, was called the "Tukou" rebellion, and the so-called "Tukou" was relative to the Liukou.

In the early years of Shunzhi, there were constantly "bandits" rebelling in Shandong, so the military discipline of the Eight Banners was very bad when they entered Shandong, and many villages were slaughtered along the road, and the civil officials in Shandong were powerless to stop the behavior of their masters.

The Eight Banners Forward Battalion, which arrived in advance, took the women and people who had been plundered along the road to cut wood in the north of the city and set up camp behind the mountains.

The Tartar army was dominated by cavalry, with no artillery, and there were two exploratory attacks, but little progress was made.

The commander of the sea time line was set up in the original health department. may have been in the Tartar army for a long time, but he actually welcomed Gu Rong with a hug salute.

Gu Rong was a little unaccustomed to it, and forced a smile to cooperate with Hai Shixing.

Hai Shixing was spontaneous anyway, and he had not established contact with Dongjiang Town before, and after cutting his braids, he proclaimed himself the king of the Ming Dynasty, and his title was nondescript.

Ding Yaokang filled in a formal appointment with a blank pardon, and when he was in Jinhai, he was the right governor and the chief soldier of Shandong, and this official position was already higher than Gu Rong.

may not have gotten the title, and Hai Shixing was a little dissatisfied.

When Gu Rong said that he could provide Hongyi cannons, Hai Shixing immediately threw his dissatisfaction out of the clouds. What is the empty title in the melee, how can there be a cannon.

Gu Rong came out of the Health Department.

The soldiers and civilians on the street were in a hurry, afraid that two words would be written on the faces of many people.

The Tatars ruled in the north for a long time, and the sea was too hasty anyway, and they did not completely subdue the hearts of the army and the people.

The brain is hot, and when you kill the officials and rob the girl, you can say that this will really be forced to the city by the Eight Banners, anyway, no one is sure how reliable the officers and soldiers are.

The soldiers and civilians were afraid of being slaughtered by the Eight Banners, so they entrenched themselves in the city. With a little appeasement outside the city, middle and lower-ranking officers might open the door and surrender, as there have been countless examples in the past.

Gu Rong thought as he walked, it was safe to stay outside the city, even if the Lingshan guard was lost, he would immediately get on the boat and evacuate.

But is it really good?

The official army of the Southern Ming Dynasty went north, waving the banner of Emperor Yongli. This is a decent Ming Dynasty official army, not a spontaneous rebel army. This banner alone is enough to put many people on the sidelines. If Lingshan is slaughtered, it will not be a good thing for the subsequent development of Dongjiang Town.

Gu Rong walked to the north city wall, the city gate was guarded by an urn city, and Hai Shixing doubled the most dangerous north city wall.

Shandong's agricultural conditions are good, there are no major floods and droughts, and in the past, grain was often exported to the south of the Yangtze River by sea. Hai Shixing was looted before being besieged, and the beans and wheat in the city could last for more than half a year.

There is a chance.

Under the ginkgo tree, Gu Rong turned his heart sideways and decided to take a risk.

Half of Dongjiang Town was left to guard the ship, and the other 800 people entered the city for reinforcements.

A week later, Jishiha led the main force of the Tartar army to the city, carrying 26 red-coated cannons.

The Tartar army attacked the city, and the Ming army returned fire with 12-pounder iron cannons.

The artillery battle began, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the rubble flew wildly.

When the sea is in the middle of the day, he has a set of skills to defend the city.

The Tartar army smashed the battlements, and the town of Jiaozhou forced the strong men to go to the city and build temporary fortifications with earthen baskets.

The Tartar army collapsed a city wall, and the Ming army repelled the siege Tartar soldiers with grenades and rolling wood and stones. The strong man carried stones and tiles, and the beams and timbers removed from the buildings in the city and the gravel dug up on the mountain in the south city were smashed down with all their lives, and the gaps were filled again.

There were enough manpower in the city, and the Ming army rammed earth behind the gap in the city wall and erected a fence, and built another section of the city wall.

In December, when heavy snow closed the mountains, the two armies suspended military operations and took refuge in large tents or barracks to keep warm.

Gu Rong often fought with the Tatars in Jiangnan, and experienced the gradually declining combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners.

Hai Shixing's nervous heart gradually let go.

Compared with more than ten years ago, the Eight Banners are better equipped, well-trained, and more proficient in marksmanship. But these Eight Banners soldiers from Beijing are not as able to endure hardships as before.

In the past, in such weather, Hai Shixing did not dare to conclude that the Eight Banners would definitely not go out of the camp to fight.

Now in this Tartar army, many people are too cold to fight, and they are too hot to fight. Not to mention the solid mountain, even the prince may not be able to force it.

The Ming army was given a chance to breathe and reinforce the fortifications.

The city was besieged in winter, and in addition to food, fuel was another big problem.

Without sufficient fuel, there is no hot food, no hot water, and no heating, which creates massive non-combat attrition. In Liaodong that year, Hai Shixing suffered a lot.

This problem does not exist for Lingshanwei by the sea. There are woods on the mountain south of the city, which have been cut down, and there is a Lingshan Island 18 kilometers to the south. The island is completely covered with forests, and it is impossible to cut it down.

The Ming army sent boats to the island every day to cut down trees, and at the same time, they were transferring part of the population to Lingshan Island.

The battle was deadlocked.

Good living conditions, relatively adequate supplies, and military discipline were maintained.

The imperial flag also worked, and the Green Battalion continued to call themselves officers and soldiers anyway, which allowed them to maintain a minimum of organization.

In May 1655, 68 large bird ships sent by Shen Tingyang arrived at Lingshan Bay.

Dongjiang Town entered Jiaozhou Bay with gunboats and shelled the coast.

The Ming army burned Lingshan City, and the whole army boarded the ship and went north to Changshan Island.

There were too many Tatar troops in Shandong, and the target of the Dongjiang Ming army in 1655 was still Liaodong.